Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year it was the "impressionistic" doorbell-ringer Samuel Lubell (TIME, Oct. 15), who climbed farthest out on the limb. While making no percentage predictions, he correctly forecast an Ike landslide and added that Ike would take all the big industrial states. Moreover he pinpointed the newest political trend: the breakup of the former Democratic majorities in the nation's big cities. But Gallup and Roper hit as close to perfection as anybody could reasonably expect. In their final forecasts, published just before Election Day, the Big Two had Ike landsliding with 59.5% (Gallup) and 60% (Roper). Actual...
Worldwide superstition long decreed that almost all abnormalities in newborn children-from port-wine stain to the absence of a limb-were the result of shock suffered by the mother during pregnancy. Medical science seemed to demolish these old wives' tales, but now, as a result of exact, deductive reasoning, it is coming to believe that in some few cases, at least, the old wives were right...
Declaration of Enmity. That was not the language of force, but in the cadences of diplomacy it was almost as severe. Eden had taken his nation far out on a limb: after such talk Britain had either to pressure Nasser into backing down or compromising or it had to work to bring him down, by whatever method it could. The alternative for Britain was a disastrous loss of international prestige. On second thoughts, some British editorialists (though not all: see cartoon) were grateful to Dulles for having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony...
...Limb. In Los Angeles, claiming innocence when detectives questioned him about bookmaking, Ralph Pattison said he had been trying to place a bet, not take one, was arrested when the officers found $3,233 in cash and a betting slip in his wooden...
...Harold Stassen crawled out on such a limb? Most Republicans took him at his word when he said he was not attempting to win the vice-presidential nomination for himself. Their judgment as to his motives: having failed in his tries at the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952, and despite his foreclosure this week. Stassen wants another shot in 1960. And to take over the Eisenhower wing of the party, he must first get Nixon out of the way. Clearly, the tireless Childe Harold was setting out on a new pilgrimage toward his promised land...